Pick the best chicken breeds for your homestead!
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How Many Eggs do Chickens Lay and other Common Chicken Questions
Common Chicken Questions People from all over the world contact me with comments and questions about homesteading. Chicken questions top the list! Here are some of the common questions I am asked about raising chickens…I hope that this post will answer some of your questions too! How Many Eggs do…
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Hatching Chicks in Autumn
For complete instructions on hatching eggs, see my post How to Hatch Chicken Eggs in an Incubator Hatching in Spring vs Fall Most people think of cute little chicks hatching in the spring, right around Easter time. It’s the natural time of year for baby animals to start their lives,…
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The Chicken Chronicles – Marek’s Disease
Marek’s Disease We moved to this homestead in 2010 and I jumped headfirst into the chicken raising project. We had chickens when I was a kid and they free ranged around our yard and garden…no big deal, right? So how much trouble can chickens really be? I started out…
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Wanna Go Homesteady? Part 1
Finding Our Homestead So many people are interested in the homesteading lifestyle, they’re everywhere! Urbanites, suburbanites, apartment and condo dwellers, 20-somethings, and old-timers too…from all walks of life there are folks who want to move out to the country and eat a lot of peaches. In other words, they all…